Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,266, Huriah Gilmore, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Gilmore, Huriah
S. 32,266
Born in N.C.
CONTENTS

Daley death not an as
Illinois 13.393.
Amariah Gilmore
of Morgan in the State of Illinois. who was a Private in the 6 th ————— commanded by Captain Watkins of the Reg t ————— commanded by Col. Lynch in the Virginia line for 9 mos. & 25 days.
32.77 $32.77/100
Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois. at the rate of 32 Dollars 77 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Feb. 1833 and sent to R. W. Duncan, Jacksonville, M.B. Pa.
Arrears to the 4th of March. 33. 65.54 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. 33. 16.38
$81.92
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. J. Palmer Clerk Book 6 Vol. 8 Page 57

11.884.
Horah Gilm at
Illinois
93.393
Return 2.4.5.16,
Adm 9 months 8 25 days.
P. H. Sumner Jacksonville Illinois D. Lockwood, Clk. Jacksonville Madison Co P. H. Sumner Agent Illinois.

BRIEF in the case of  Moe  Huriah Gilman County of Morgan in the State of Illinois (Act 7th June, 1832.)
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 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in open court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 88  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.      July In 1776 } volunteered  he does not  which year 1777  "reborn in Winter" time about  5 private Col. Mathew Col. Smith   Feb. 1780 volunteered about 3 sergeant Col. Moore Col. Lutterel   Aug. 1781. drafted 3 Col. Lutterel Col. Lynch   Col. Calloway  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bedford County Virginia  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers are not attached agreeably to the regulation, — nor are the periods or length of service exactly stated
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.

State of Illinois } Morgan County } ss.
AD. 1832 on this eleventh day of September personally appeared in open court before Samuel D Lockwood Judge of the court of Circuit Court of Morgan County now sitting Hearah Gilmore of Pike County - Illinois aged eighty three years - who first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated. In July AD. 1776 or 1777 which year I cannot distinctly recollect at this remote period I Hearah Gilmore then living in Bedford County - State of Virginia of Flat Creek near the waters of Otter River - volunteered as a Soldier and entered the service of the United States as a private in the company commanded by Captain Charles Watkins and James Adams Lieutenant - which consisted of about fifty men - we ranged through the mountains of Virginia - over Blue Ridge and Waldrons Ridge and to the Cumberland Gap so called - engaged against the Shawnee and Kickapoo tribes of Indians - until the month of October following from Cumberland Gap we were called to march to Boonsboro' fort on the Kentucky River - to relieve the forces then there under the command of Colonel Lutterel and Captain Smith - Colonel Daniel Boon remained still in the fort - I remained in the fort until the middle of the winter following - while there Daniel Boon was taken

was taken prisoner, with about twenty privates, by the Shawnee Indians. In going to Boon's fort we met Major Henderson and Colonel Richard Caloway. I returned in the middle of the same winter from the campaign about five months in length . I recollect not distinctly whether I received any discharge from Captain Watkins - if I did, I considered it of no value at that time, and have lost it for this service I received my full pay. I know of no person who can testify to my service in this campaign - In February A.D. 1780 Colonel Charles Lynch raised 500 Riflemen and I then volunteered and entered the service of the United States as a private. William Jones commanded my company Captain Moore and Captain Helms ten of the other companies in Col Lynch's regiment - we marched direct to Guilford County in North Carolina and joined the Southern Army under the command of General Greene and was there at the time of the battle between Lord Cornwallis' army and General Greene's - when the American army gave ground to the English - three days before the battle I was taken sick and was confined to my bed - when I recovered I obtained a furlough and returned home to Bedford County. which I think was some time in April same year making the time of my campaign about three months. I had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with any of the Field Officers and their names have escaped my memory except those above named. I know of no living person who can testify to my service in this campaign - In August A.D. 1781 while living in Bedford county - Virginia - I was drafted as a Soldier and entered the service of United States as a private Soldier in

company commanded by Charles Caloway first Lieutenant Cobus Yearly - Second Lieutenant Menus Hains. The Colonel then with the militia in the county was James Caloway - companies from Bedford County from Henry County and Spotsylvania County met in the East part of Bedford County and from there marched through a place called Petersburg to James River at Drums Point where we crossed and joined the main army at Little York Town - under General Washington - and Gen. La' Fayette where I remained until the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and his army in constant service during the time - I recollect of no other officers at this time - neither did procure a discharge and have no documentary evidence whatsoever by which to substantiate my service - I know of no person whatsoever to testify to my service in this campaign - which continued during three months - I have never received one cent of money for any of my services except the first named and asked not then how I should be paid before I intended to go on a campaign - and best now in my old age and in my circumstances of extreme poverty upon the munificence of Government who have at last conducted to take upon the pension list those whom the unfortunate circumstances of the time and want of education prevented receiving and preserving the necessary documentary ev- idence - to obtain their hard earned pittance - I was born in North Carolina, at Moore river in the year 1749. what month I do not recollect - there was a record of my age made by my parents but was not preserved - a sister grown up or was an adult when I was born - told me in later life she recollects my age by the circumstances of my fathers giving a deed of certain piece of land when I was at the breast - when very young my parents

removed to Big Pee Dee in South Carolina and from there to after losing my parents I was taken and brought and raised by a cousin Mr. Gilmore in Cumberland North Carolina where I remained until 1776 or 77 when I removed and settled in Bedford county Virginia - In the fall after Lord Cornwallis' surrender I removed into Rowan county North Carolina for one year then removed into Georgia into Overton county and Warren county until 1828 when I removed to Morgan county Illinois and remained one year I then removed into Pike county Illinois where I now reside - I am known by
James V. Henderson and Victor Cloud who have known for some time near neighbors to me - I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity - except the present and declare my name is not on the pension roll of any state whatsoever I hereby claim the claim to be
1832 -
Harvey G. Galloway
I promise to subscribe the claim to the system
1832
Samuel D. Lockwood

we James V Heidenburg ( and clergyman) residing in the county of Mazon State of Illinois. and Newton Cloud residing in Mazon county aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hiram Gilmore who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be eighty three years of age - that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed this seventh day of September Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty two
Before me Samuel Lockwood
James V Heidenburg
Newton Cloud
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department - that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states And the court further certifies that it appears to them that James V Heidenburg who has signed the preceding affidavit is a clergyman resident in Mazon County - Illinois and that Newton Cloud who has also signed the same is a resident in the Mazon County also a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Samuel Lockwood
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State of Illinois Morgan County } ss
Dennis Rockwell clerk of the Circuit Court for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Hannah Gilmore for a pension — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of my office this eleventh day of September AD eighteen hundred and thirty two
Dennis Rockwell clerk Morgan Circuit Court

July 30, 1935
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RA-J/HEL am
Euriah Gilmore-S.32266
Mrs. William H. Haas, Jr. 3218 South Compton Glenna Little Haas Saint Louis, Missouri
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Uriah Gilmore, who was reported in the Census of Pensioners in 1841 as of Macoupin County, Illinois, and then aged ninety-two years.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Uriah Gilmore. The record has been found of one Euriah Gilmore, of Morgan County, Illinois, which is possibly that of the soldier in whom you are interested.
A very careful examination has been made of the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.32266, made by Euriah Gilmore and the data which follow were found therein.
Euriah Gilmore was born in 1749, on the Neuse River in North Carolina; when very young, his parents moved to the Big Pee Dee River in South Carolina; after losing his parents, he was taken by a cousin, a Mr. Gilmore, and brought up in Cumberland County, North Carolina, where he remained until 1776 or 1777, when he moved to Bedford County, Virginia. The names of his parents, date of their death and Christian name of the cousin who reared him are not shown.
While residing on Flat Creek near Otter River, in Bedford County, Virginia, Euriah Gilmore volunteered in December, 1777, served as a private in Captain Charles Watkins' Virginia Company; marched over the Blue Ridge to Cumberland Gap and was in a campaign with the Shawnee and Kickapoo Indians; in October following, he went to Boonsboro on the Kentucky River, to the relief of the fort at that place, then under the command of Captain Smith and Colonel Lutteral; Colonel Daniel Boone was there, also, and while soldier was at the fort, Colonel Boone, with twenty others, was
This part my Mrs. F.

taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians: soldier continued in this service until the middle of the following winter: he enlisted in February, 1781, served in Captain William Jones' Company, Colonel Charles Lynch's Virginia Regiment, marched to Guilford County, North Carolina and joined the southern army under General Greene; three days before the battle of Guilford Court House, he was taken sick and was confined to his bed on the day of the battle; after his recovery, he was given a furlough and returned home; length of this service, about three months: he enlisted in August, 1781, served as a private in Captain Charles Calloway's Company, Colonel James Calloway's Virginia Regiment, marched to Yorktown and served until after the surrender of Cornwallis; length of this service, two months and fifteen days.
In the fall after the surrender of Cornwallis, Huriah Gilmore moved to Rowan County, North Carolina and lived for one year; thence to Georgia into Overton and Warren Counties and lived until 1828; thence to Morgan County, Illinois; thence to Pike County, Illinois. No places of residence within these counties are shown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1832, while living in Pike County, Illinois. His place of residence in 1840 is not shown nor is the date and place of his death given.
The soldier referred to a sister older than himself and to his children who lived in Pike and Morgan Counties, Illinois. He did not give the name of his sister nor those of his children nor is the name of his wife and the date of their marriage shown. No reference whatever is made to the Seburne Gilmore in this pension claim, who was reported in 1840 as head of the family in which the soldier lived.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Huriah Gilmore(S.32266), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Huriah Gilmore, Certificate No.13393, issued July 16, 1833, rate $32.77 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Illinois Agency.
The Revolutionary War and War of 1812 records were searched and no claim for pension found based upon service of a Seburne Gilmore.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

32266 Rey INVALID.
File No. 32,266
Barish Gilmore
in Rev War
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 137
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1911 Dec. 9 Mrs. Lucy D. Hayes furnished tombstone data. Letters in W.F. 3603 Joshua Richardson V.L.M.
1935—July 30—Thist Cr Mrs. John H. Kaas. Jr. El

I, Hunsah Gilmore depose and say that on the eleventh day of September 1832 I appeared before Hon Samuel D Lockwood Judge of Morgan County Circuit Court - presented - subscribed and made oath to a declaration prescribed for obtaining a pension - and I applied to the Morgan County Circuit because it was then in session - and I was then in Morgan County - for I live nearly as much in Morgan County as in Pike - I have children in both counties and I am much better acquainted in Morgan County than in Pike county - and my witnesses were in Morgan County, and the court should not sit in Pike city until six months after the time I applied - and I was unable to bear the expense of procuring witnesses from a distance - And I, Hunsah Gilmore further depose and say that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory I cannot swear positively as to the precise length of service but according to the best of my recollection I served not less than the periods mentioned herein - and in the following order - For five months from the last of July 1777. until the last of December 1777. I served as a private soldier - also for two months and ten days from the first of February 1780 until the last of April 1781. I served as a private soldier - also for two months and fifteen days from the first of August 1781. until the last of October 1781. I served as a private - which was the length of time I served as a soldier viz nine months and twenty five days and was the period of the war in which I served - Samuel D Lockwood, Judge of Morgan County Circuit Court is now on his circuit duties in the northern part of this state - his circuit will not commence here until the last of May, next - and it is impossible by reason of infirmities to attend before him -
Hunsah Gilmore
State of Illinois } ss. Matthew Stacy a Justice of the Peace within Morgan County } and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Gilmore whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit, personally appeared before me and after having the same read to him in my presence, made oath to the same and subscribed his name thereto - Given Under My hand and seal this the 30 th day of April 1833 M. Stacy (S.P.)

State of Illinois Morgan County } ss.
I Dennis Rockwell Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of said County do her by certify that Nat Stacy Esq r before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn to and signed is an acting Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned and sworn into office and fully authorized to admin ister oaths and to all of his acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Jacksonville this 30th day of April 1833 —
Dennis Rockwell Clerk
State of Illinois Morgan County } ss
I Dennis Rockwell Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for Morgan County do hereby certify that the attached Declaration of Hen rich Gilmore is the identical declaration sworn to and Subscribed by him Before his Honor Samuel D Lockwood Esq r in open court on the eleventh day of September 1832 —
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of our said Court at Jacksonville this 30th day of April 1833 —
Dennis Rockwell Clerk

May 21, 1935.
Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you please consult your records and give me all of the information you have concerning:
✓ URIAH GILMORE, age 92, on June 1, 1840, who resided in Macoupin Co., Ill. as noted on page 187 in the published record of the Census of Pensions.
What did his service cover and what was his place of residence? no/1842
What was the relationship between him and Seburne Gilmore listed as the head of the family on 6/1/1840? Do you have the name of his wife, children, parents and place of birth? no/1842
✓ What was the exact town or location in which he resided on June 1, 1840? When and where did he die?
Do you have anything bearing his signature or are there any of these papers of which a photostatic copy, in your opinion, would be a desirable addition to a family history?
I shall be very grateful for all of the information you can give me and look forward to your reply.
Yours vry truly,
no signature (Mrs. Wm. H. Haas, Jr.)